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WASHINGTON, D.C., August 8, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Intended as a simple gathering to invoke God’s help for America, a high-profile Houston prayer rally hosted by Texas Gov. Rick Perry kicked a beehive of anti-Christian sentiment as media commentators slammed the event as bigoted, unconstitutional, and even akin to Nazi brainwashing tactics.

The Response, a non-denominational Christian event initiated by Gov. Perry and joined by cosponsors including the American Family Association (AFA), drew around 30,000 participants to Houston Saturday. There, the crowd followed a Biblical injunction to “gather together, repent of their sins, and pray to God to intervene on their behalf.”

“A historic crisis facing our nation and threatening our future demands a historic response from the church. We must, as a people, return to the faith and hope of our fathers,” states The Response’s web site.

Governor Perry, who is expected to announce his presidential bid on Saturday, bucked political correctness at the event in favor of wearing openly his Christian beliefs.

“Father, our heart breaks for America,” said Perry, as reported by the Associated Press. “We see discord at home. We see fear in the marketplace. We see anger in the halls of government and, as a nation, we have forgotten who made us, who protects us, who blesses us.”

The governor called on the crowd to pray for the nation and for President Obama, and was otherwise silent on political issues.

In the aftermath, critics lambasted the pro-life and pro-family event as “bigoted,” primarily due to the American Family Association’s (AFA) involvement, and too exclusive of other faiths because it called for prayer to Jesus.

Praise God
 
Go Rick Perry! 👍

I can’t believe people get so upset about stuff like this. It is they who are bigoted against Christianity.
 
So good praise God for ever, what a number.Hope the numbers get bigger as time goes by.
Praise God.
 
I saw a number of reports on it in the mainstream media. They all covered the critics as well as the gathering, of course; but I didn’t hear any of the news media slamming the event. You’d think MSNBC would have been right up there.
 
:clapping: God bless Rick Perry!
We need more Christian public figures that are not ashamed to go against “political correctness” and “mainstream opinion” and proclaim their faith.
 
Good for Governor Perry! He’s not afraid to buck the ‘politically correct’ to tell it like it is!

Now if we had Catholic politicians (or even our Bishops) who are willing to stick their necks out and call for Americans to repent, that would be even better.

Who cares what the MSM says! They can ‘go pound salt’! What do they mean by comparing a gathering of Christians to a Nazi party rally? That’s crazy! 😦 :mad:

We have forgotten God and His Laws in this country, and in the West as a whole. We have turned out backs on Him, and worse still, spit in His Face by enacting laws that kill the unborn child in the womb and redefine ‘marriage’. If He punishes us, then we deserve it, I’m afraid…what will take us to LISTEN TO HIS VOICE?

Oh Lord, please come…soon…
 
barb_finnegan said:
Good for Governor Perry! He’s not afraid to buck the ‘politically correct’ to tell it like it is!

Now if we had Catholic politicians (or even our Bishops) who are willing to stick their necks out and call for Americans to repent, that would be even better.

Who cares what the MSM says! They can ‘go pound salt’! What do they mean by comparing a gathering of Christians to a Nazi party rally? That’s crazy! 😦 :mad:

We have forgotten God and His Laws in this country, and in the West as a whole. We have turned out backs on Him, and worse still, spit in His Face by enacting laws that kill the unborn child in the womb and redefine ‘marriage’. If He punishes us, then we deserve it, I’m afraid…what will take us to LISTEN TO HIS VOICE?

Oh Lord, please come…soon…
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Yeh guess your right but I belong to a few christian groups world wide and I don’t live in America but will write to you to open your eyes for information read is information you can share and this surely will open the eyes of those in the church to pray more and more and for those lost to come back and pray for our countries.
Love you American friends (brothers and sisters)

So please keep it up brother / sisters.
And you pray for New Zealand we are no better.

Godbless
littleone
 
perhaps we all need to get together to pray. I don’t remember when the meet me at the flagpole day is. Sometime around back to school. I know this is a protestent thing but we could join them. All I know is that we all had better start praying again.
 
tonild said:
perhaps we all need to get together to pray. I don’t remember when the meet me at the flagpole day is. Sometime around back to school. I know this is a protestent thing but we could join them. All I know is that we all had better start praying again.
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Amen to that and listen to this…

Remember Jesus questioning the ethics of the deciples?
“Lord they said these people are using the gifts of the spirit and they are not one of us”!
also, Jesus said to the deciples “he who is not with me is against me”. Jesus also tells us that there are many rooms in My Fathers house.

So, who are we to say to another person that although they use the gifts of the Holy Spirit but be not practicing in the Catholic faith that they are wrong or have no right’s to the gifts.

Again, todays reading about the Samaratin woman who cried out, Lord please lay your hand on my daughter she is posest by a devil. Jesus tells her He is here to save the Jews. She repetes her words tells Him that even the dogs will take the scraps from the table, and it is in her Faith that the same as the centrian, their faith gave in to God’s mercy.

So it is that ALL people are called to be saved All people should pray and All people NOT say that one prayer is better than another. For are not all people and all prayers called to bless God almighty.

Amen amen,
Godbless
littleone
 
so what if we all showed up at our city halls and such, and pray for America, catholic protestant, and who ever else wants to join us? what would the press say then. The world is trying to silence us.
 
tonild said:
so what if we all showed up at our city halls and such, and pray for America, catholic protestant, and who ever else wants to join us? what would the press say then. The world is trying to silence us.
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I have some idea.

Once I went to a Promise Keepers’ meeting in Wichita, upon the invite of a friend. Very inspiring speakers, and some good music, although I did take exception to one particular speaker who was preaching about “going to church” v. “having some church” where the former he characterized by playing a few bars of a traditional hymn on his electronic organ, and the latter was when the band played some up-tempo rock-ish music. I didn’t object to his kind of music, but I play the first kind at church on organ and/or piano every week and I thought that he was bigoted about it. 😦

But I digress. The point is that my professor and EE department chair from Wichita State U where I was working on my MS degree, went to a huge PK event in Colorado. The feminists and even some of the mainstream press were aghast. Not only were they telling men about being good fathers and providers, but it was generally a men-only attendance – men were encouraged to be good husbands, parents, and providers. That just didn’t set well. Dr. Johnson said it was a huge assembly and the most peaceful men he could be around – like at the end as the huge crowds were leaving he found that nobody was impatient or pushing each other at all like crowds normally do. 🙂

He didn’t go into the particulars about the media coverage (and this was before Internet was widely available so I didn’t look it up) but he did say there were several groups loudly protesting the event, especially feminist groups. Instead of being pleased that men were being coached in their family roles, they actually flew airplanes with banners protesting the event, around the stadium, during the event. :rolleyes:

Alan
 
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